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Moonchild Productions has launched\u00a0Pale Moon 19.0<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Pale Moon x64 19.0<\/a>\u00a0for Windows. Pale Moon is a customised build of popular web browser Firefox, with the developer making no attempt to keep pace with Mozilla\u2019s six-weekly development cycle in favour of applying security updates and concentrating on delivering improved performance.<\/p>\n This release marks the first major update since Pale Moon 15.0 — based on Firefox 15 — was released last August, but while Pale Moon 19 utilizes the brand new Gecko 19 engine found in the latest version of Firefox, don\u2019t expect to see all the functionality in Firefox 19 making an appearance here.<\/p>\n With the underlying Gecko update, Pale Moon 19.0\u2019s HTML5 implementation is more complete than the previous build. Javascript performance has also been improved thanks to the shift to the IonMonkey engine, which first appeared in Firefox 18. Also improved in Gecko 19 are the layout and rendering engines, but one side-effect is that users may have to update both add-ons and themes to retain compatibility with Pale Moon 19.<\/p>\n While the overall layout of the browser hasn\u2019t changed, there are subtle changes to the main browser controls and padlock icon.<\/p>\n Moonchild has \u2013 in accordance with its desire to produce a faster browser than Firefox \u2013 also applied specific tweaks to the rendering engine to improve performance, which it claims is noticeable both in general user and via certain unspecified benchmarks. These changes should help prevent browser stalls or high CPU usage on certain web pages.<\/p>\n Pale Moon 19.0 also abandons PGO (Profile Guided Optimization) in favour of global speed optimizations, which should give better smoothness regardless of which PC is using the browser.<\/p>\n As this is a custom build, don\u2019t expect all of the functionality of Firefox 19 in this release. There are fewer developer tools, for example, while Moonchild has\u00a0publicly stated<\/a>\u00a0the social API introduced in Firefox 17 won\u2019t be appearing in Pale Moon.<\/p>\n The inline PDF viewer is also apparently missing in this release, but that\u2019s because it\u2019s been switched off by default. Switch it on by typing about:config into the browser Address bar, then search for\u00a0pdfjs<\/em>\u00a0— verify that\u00a0pdfjs.firstRun<\/em>\u00a0is set to true, then double-click\u00a0pdfjs.disabled<\/em>\u00a0so it\u2019s set to false. Once done, you\u2019ll be prompted each time you click on a PDF whether or not you want to preview it in Pale Moon. To make it the default choice, open\u00a0Pale Moon\u00a0>Options\u00a0>\u00a0Applications<\/em>\u00a0tab and change the Portable Document Format (PDF) entry to\u00a0Preview in Pale Moon<\/em>. Job done.<\/p>\n Pale Moon 19.0<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Pale Moon x64 19.0<\/a>\u00a0are both available as freeware downloads for PCs running Windows XP SP3 or later, as are portable builds\u00a0Pale Moon 19.0 Portable<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Pale Moon x64 19.0 Portable<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Michal Ninger<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n Moonchild Productions has launched\u00a0Pale Moon 19.0\u00a0and\u00a0Pale Moon x64 19.0\u00a0for Windows. Pale Moon is a customised build of popular web browser Firefox, with the developer making no attempt to keep pace with Mozilla\u2019s six-weekly development cycle in favour of applying security updates and concentrating on delivering improved performance. This release marks the first major update since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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